Saws

Tonight after N and the pups met me coming back from the train, there were a couple of drunks in the library park hassling a couple of women. Usually this is restricted to whistles or comments, but tonight we saw the man walk after the women, clearly bothering them. I called the police as I not only found this to be unacceptable, but we are also trying to get the police to recognize this as a nuisance site to get extra attention to it. I was pleasantly surprised that someone had already called and reported the issue.

Later this evening we walked to our friend S's to help her move in a couch found by our friend V. S was at work, but had determined the legs had to be sawed off of the discarded couch and so had borrowed a saw from us. But a bow saw does not work well on furniture, so I walked down with N, a wood saw in hand. I imagine that there were people who saw me and wondered what I would be doing walking down the street with a saw. Surely this could not be for an altruistic purpose (even though it was), but thankfully the police were not called (or never arrived).

Well, the legs came off, and the couch was hoisted over a deck railing on the second floor to enter the apartment, all with good safe intentions. Success was ours. Beers were opened. And we walked home with two saws in hand.